Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Version
2.3.13
6.2.1
2.5.6
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 days ago)
2026-02-08 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 days ago)
2026-02-08 (26 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
All
System Requirements Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
actions (PHP)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse WackoWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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